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Ex-Toms River school worker accused of child sex assault

Margaret F. Bonafide, @mfbonafide;
7:46 p.m. EDT June 23, 2014

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TOMS RIVER – William J. Herflicker III, a retired 52-year-old Toms River Regional school district employee, was indicted by an Ocean County grand jury on multiple sex crimes against two children. The indictment was handed up June 11.

Herflicker, of Toms River, is retired from the school district, where he worked in the information technology department, officials said. Herflicker had no direct contact with school children, district officials said. He is not currently incarcerated. The indictment set bail at $250,000 with no option to pay 10 percent.

Herflicker was suspended from the district in October with pay, per law, said Tammi Comer Millar, district spokesperson. He was earning $57,575.28 when he filed retirement papers two weeks ago, she said.

The school district cooperated fully with the police during the investigation, she said.

The crimes alleged in the indictment occurred in 2007 and 2008. The 12-count indictment includes charges of first-degree aggravated sexual assault, second-degree sexual assault, fourth-degree criminal sexual contact and second-degree endangering the welfare of a child. His bail is contingent with having no contact with his two victims. If found guilty of a first degree crime, a defendant faces a potential penalty of 10 to 20 years in prison; second-degree crimes carry a possible five- to 10-year prison sentence.